Frist Museum Latest Exhibit ~ The Impressionist Revolution

I have traveled to downtown Nashville to visit Frist Art Museum twice.  Both exhibits have been excellent with a large variety of artifacts.  The latest collection was The Impressionist Revolution Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art.  So many important painters from that era were featured.

The Impressionism movement began in 1874 and continued into the twentieth century. “Breaking with tradition in both how and what they painted as well as how they showed their work, the Impressionists redefined what constituted cutting-edge, contemporary art.  The exhibition invited its attendees to reconsider these now-beloved artists as the scandalous renegades they were as well as the considerable impact they had on twentieth century art.”

Entering the exhibit, we were greeted with this fabulous line art titled Plexus No. 47, 2026.  The artist was Gabriel Dawe.

Alfred Sisley - “Street in Ville-d’Avray” 1873

Gustave Caillebotte - The Path in the Garden, 1886

Be sure to read the last sentence of this plaque 

Claude Monet - Water Lilies, 1908

Claude Monet - Poplars, Pink Effect, 1891

Paul Signac - The Seine River in Paris, 1883

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Enlarged central figure in painting below

Impressionism has been one of my favorite art forms and this impressive exhibit showed me a wide variety of it besides Pointillism, an application of small dots of paint on a canvas.